some thoughts

Part 2: What it Means to ‘Love…as we are Loved’
“Your steadfast love, O Lord, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.” [Psalm 36:5]
Last week we looked at what it means to have a Master—or, what it means to be Mastered. We discovered that it means his commands are non-negotiable: we must say […]

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Part 1: What it Means to be ‘Mastered’
“Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?“ [Luke 6:46, NASB]
We have no idea what it really means to have a Master—rather, to be mastered. We having nothing in our world to compare it to. But we desperately need to […]

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“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom;all those who practice it have good understanding.” [Psalm 111:10]“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only,deceiving yourselves.” [James 1:22]
We’ve probably all heard of ‘practicing the presence of the Lord’ (a la Brother Lawrence), but what does it mean to ‘practice the […]

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